Alphabetical Tag Cloud – Shortcode Parameters

Find more information about this tab cloud here.

This is a feature of the free and the premium plugins.

Note: This shortcode is also available as Gutenberg block. You can configure the block without using any code or parameters. Read more about the block options.

If you don’t know what is a shortcode and how to use it, you first may want to read this article.

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• string: A text. For identifiers that won’t be visible to visitors you often have to replace spaces with _ or -. If the string contains spaces, you need to wrap it in quotes.

• integer: A number without decimal places.

• 0 or 1: 0 turns the feature off and 1 on.

If you are using Gutenberg, most of the parameters below will also be available in the corresponding block. You can always convert a block to a shortcode while preserving your settings.

This overview assumes that you know how to use shortcodes. Shortcodes are the traditional WordPress way how to add features into posts, pages and widgets.

Restrict the tags only to these taxonomies. Available are only taxonomies that have been activated in the Settings.

Font-size in pt of the smallest tags.

Font-size in pt of the largest tags.

Here you can specify tags/terms by their IDs that alone should be included.

Available only in the shortcode!

Here you can specify a list of tag/term IDs that should be excluded. exclude_terms is ignored if you use include_terms.

Available only in the shortcode!

Which field to use for sorting.

Since WordPress doesn’t natively offer natural sort order, we have to first order them by name and then by natural sort order. If you limit the number of tags with amount, the amount of tags is therefore determined by cutting off with “name” sorting and then sorting them with “natural”.

Whether to sort the tags in ascending or descending order. Ascending order also means from oldest to newest.

Maximum amount of tags in one cloud (per group).

Whether to hide or show tags that are not assigned to any post.

Set a minimum count of published posts that use a tag for this tag to appear. Posts are counted across all groups. Please also pay attention to the value of hide_empty.

Display only tags that are assigned to the post (or page) with a specified ID. If the value is set to 0, the plugin will try to retrieve the current post ID. Turn it off with -1.

A modification of the tags_post_id parameter: Rather than hiding tags that are not assigned to the post (or page), they can be styled differently. Tags will receive this class name with appended _1 or _0. (If you output the tags as an array, a new element with the key “assigned” will be true or false.)

A separator between the tags.

Whether to adjust the separator’s size to the size of the following tag.

The size of the separator, if not automatically adjusted to the size of the following tag.

Prepend to each tag label. Can obtain the placeholder {count} that will be replaced with the post count for that tag.

Append to each tag label. Can obtain the placeholder {count} that will be replaced with the post count for that tag.

Append something to each tag’s link, for example a query.

Available only in the shortcode!

Customize the locale (language-specific setting) that is used for sorting the first letters (initials). By default we use the language setting of your site. This sort order affects only the order of the first letters, not the tag order (see “orderby” and “order”).

Accepted values depend on which locales PHP can use on your server. They can have formats like “fr”, “fr_FR” or “fr_FR.UTF8”. Please ask your provider if you cannot find it by guessing or googling.

If you turn this on, then accented (or umlaut) letters will be treated like normal letters. For a list of changes see remove_accents.

Set the “target” attribute for the links of the tags. Possible values are: _blank, _self, _parent or _top. In the shortcode you can also set the name of a frame.

Whether to show the number of posts as tooltip (behind the tag description) when hovering the mouse over the tag.

Custom title shown as tooltip. No HTML, but you can use {count} and {description} as placeholders.

Which letters should be used for the tabs.

Which letters should be excluded from the tabs.

Whether tabs are collapsible (toggle open/close).

Whether tabs can be selected by hovering over with the mouse pointer (without clicking).

Whether tabs are initially expanded or collapsed. Useful in connection with the parameter collapsible.

Use only tags of specified groups.

This parameter is only available in the shortcode.

Since version 1.29.0, we reveal the tag cloud only after the tabs have finished rendering. This prevents that visitors of your site first see tags in a list (often with bullets) before the software is able to kick in. If for any reason you need to restore the previous behavior, you can turn it off here.

You can set here IDs and classes to be referred to in CSS. You need some knowledge of CSS to use these options.

Define an ID for the enclosing <div>.

1. If you display more than one tag cloud on the same page, each shortcode needs a different value. The safest solution is to leave it empty so that div_id automatically receives a random value.

1. Avoid words that are used by WordPress such as “content” or “main”. Each ID must be unique for the entire page.

Define a class for the enclosing <div>.

Define a class for the <ul> that generates the tabs with the group labels.